NEW YORK — The NFL gods kept the snow away from their wintry Super Bowl experiment until the morning after. Now the league needs to stay away from letting New York/New Jersey host the game.

The stars may have aligned for the weather during the week and throughout the Seattle Seahawks’ dominant victory over Denver Broncos on Sunday. It was good that a colder, northern city with an outdoor stadium got its chance, opening the door for other occasional similar hosts.

But for the NFL’s largest market itself, once is enough. New York and New Jersey did their best to be gracious states. They simply can’t make up for the fact they are just too big and, in a way, too small for the Super Bowl.

It doesn’t help this is the biggest apple of the bunch New Jersey Transit had many issues with getting fans out of the game at MetLife Stadium. An estimated 1.5 million people checked out the week’s overrated Super Bowl Boulevard, making Times Square a different kind of tourist trap.

Crowding an overcrowded city where everything is already tight is the reason other huge conventions and sporting events don’t flock here. The ideal Super Bowl host is a town deemed big enough to be metropolitan, but with everything in close proximity yet with ample space. See Indianapolis and New Orleans the past two years.

Everyone in a wide metro area such as New York-New Jersey also wants a piece of the revenue action. The result is that are spread out everywhere, inconvenient to fans, and yes, the media, who do add much to Super Bowl week’s success and bottom line.

It happened in Arlington-Dallas-Fort Worth and it will happen again next year in Glendale-Phoenix-Tempe. The difference is those hosts still have the game indoors, and the latter doesn’t need to worry about the cold at all in slowing anything down.

Worst of all, New York is the kind of place that renders a beast such as the Super Bowl insignificant. It may be the only game in town, but it’s just another typical week and Sunday for the locals. It might as well be a neighborhood block party. Take a stroll a few blocks away from Midtown, and any Super Bowl buzz faded behind trains buzzing and taxis honking. Even the Super Bowl parties felt like just another weekend night of lounging and clubbing.

Commissioner Roger Goodell was right to praise the efforts of the many New Yorkers and New Jerseyites who made this happen. From hoteliers to volunteers, security guards to shuttle bus coordinators, everyone did their job welcoming the Super Bowl throngs with a smile.

But those people can’t help a combination of good population and bad geography. That’s logistics, the most important thing in considering a Super Bowl host. If the weather had turned frightful as it was on Monday, there was potential for a major disaster instead of the mild success.

New York, I love you, but you just brought down the Super Bowl. Can’t wait until it goes back up (along with temperatures) in Arizona next year.